"People drive like that all the time, but I don't understand why they do that," says Marianne Bryson, biological grandmother of Richards.

"Where are they going to get? They're not going to get anywhere any faster. And, I mean, now this man has to live with what he's done, that he has killed a young girl. Because of what? Stupidness."

Ashley Richards, 18, was killed by an apparent reckless driver her first day on the job. (CBC)

When Richards and and her fiance Ben Diprose moved to Saskatchewan, she found work as a flag person on one of the province's highways.

Richards was pregnant, and only 45 minutes into her first day on the job when she was killed by a sport utility vehicle driver who allegedly ignored signs, sped through the construction zone and slammed into her.